Chapter 2 — Phoenix Returns From The Border

The person who came was the manager's mother. She knelt outside the palace gate, her forehead close to the ground. "Niang, Miss Khuong refused to change into her servant's clothes." I gently pushed the lid of the tea cup in my hand. "What did she say?" Mom's face turned pale. "She said... said that tomorrow she would leave Dich Dinh." "And she said that today you hit her once, tomorrow she will force you to kneel down and pay her back." I asked: "What else did she say?" Ma ma The manager did not dare to raise his head. "She also said that the Tran Quoc Cong palace would not let her stay in Dich Dinh overnight." "She told the servants to clean the palace, because tomorrow when she leaves the palace, she is afraid of getting dirty." I laughed out loud. "Then let her wash." "When the palace is cleaned, then we can eat." The obedient mother retreated. After night fell, the whole Shang Kinh was in chaos. In the teahouses and taverns, everyone scolded me. Some people say that the queen was born as a slave and was born with a cruel heart. Some people say I'm jealous of Khuong Minh Chau's nobility and purity, that's why I want to drag her into the mud. There are also scholars kneeling outside the palace gate, writing bloody books. I beg your Majesty to abandon you. In Tieu Phong Dien, the palace maids knelt on the ground. A woman in the palace was chaotically packing her belongings and was captured on the spot by Ma Ma. She knelt in fear in front of me, crying and repeatedly kowtowing. "Please forgive me! I do not intend to run away, I only..." I finished speaking for her. "Afraid that tomorrow this palace will be destroyed, making you all implicated?" The blood on the little palace maid's face immediately disappeared. Thu ma ma raised her hand to fight. I stopped her. "Let her go." Thu ma ma was stunned. I looked at the palace maid kneeling on the ground. "Today I have walked out of this door, tomorrow if this palace is still sitting on the phoenix throne, you don't need to come back anymore." The little palace maid cried and thanked her, grabbed her luggage and ran away. As soon as she ran out of the palace gate, she bumped into a palace man carrying good and evil. Thu ma ma brought in the food box. When the box was opened, there was no rice or soup inside. There is only a piece of white silk. Underneath the white silk was a piece of paper. Khuong Minh Chau's handwriting is very beautiful. "The Queen, my father has joined forces with the mandarin, asking His Majesty to remove the Empress." "The slave sitting on the phoenix throne is already a joke." "I would like to give you three meters of white silk first, so that you can have dignity on the road." Thu ma ma immediately knelt down, her hands shaking violently. "Your highness, please take a step back." "The Khuong family is not an ordinary family. They have made such a big deal of it, Your Majesty is also in a difficult position." I picked up the piece of white silk and slowly wrapped it around my wrist. Winter on the border is much colder than in Thuong Kinh. When I was thirteen years old, I was sold into prostitution. The first time I washed blood-stained clothes, the water in the sink froze, my fingers cracked, my blood mixed with someone else's blood, no matter how I washed it, it didn't get clean. At that time, no one gave me face. Now Khuong Minh Chau wants to give me a piece of white silk. I threw the piece of silk into the charcoal pot. The fire immediately broke out. Mother Thu looked at me with red eyes. "Niang Niang..." I stood up. "Tomorrow's grand meeting." "No matter how they lift Khuong Minh Chau up, this palace will make her fall like that." The next day, people knelt outside the Tai Chi Temple. The old Khuong family knelt in front. Ngu Su Dai officials knelt behind. Several border generals knelt to one side. Tran Quoc Cong Khuong Hoai An knelt in the middle, his forehead was bleeding. Emperor Tieu Chieu Da sat on the dragon chair without saying a word. Khuong Minh Chau also came. She had changed back into her pure white dress, her forehead was wrapped in cloth, and her face still had red marks left from yesterday's slap. As soon as she entered the palace, the old Khuong family cried loudly: "If it were an immortal country

Did the princess under the golden stream know that seeing her only niece being humiliated like that, I'm afraid she won't be able to close her eyes! Khuong Minh Chau's body slightly staggered, reaching out her hand to hold Lieu Thanh La. As soon as she saw the emperor, she immediately knelt down. "Your Majesty, I beg for justice." As soon as her words finished, Khuong Hoai An bowed her head strongly. "Your Majesty, Minh Chau is the target." My only daughter, the only bloodline of Tran Quoc Cong's palace." "The Queen unreasonably made her a slave. What is being humiliated is not only the Khuong family's daughter but all the generals and officers who have shed their blood for Dai Chu!" The courtiers simultaneously bowed their heads. "Your Majesty, I beg you to disown the Empress!" "Your Majesty, please return the innocence of Khuong Thi!" Lieu Thanh La supported Khuong Minh Chau, crying until she could barely stand. "My father wishes to replace my daughter in Dich. Dinh." "I only ask the queen to raise her voice and hit gently, to spare Minh Chau." Khuong Minh Chau lay in her arms, tears soaking her shirt. "Mother, I am not afraid of death." "I am only afraid that the Khuong family's hundred-year-old reputation will be trampled underfoot like that." Having finished speaking, she turned to look at the martial arts mandarin in the palace. "I, Khuong Minh Chau, have read books since I was young, and have never dared to take even half a step wrong."